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Let us continue with Fargard 19 of the Vendidad, Section 2, which emphasizes the importance of having faith in God and following God’s righteous laws during our time in a human body, so that we may enter the Kingdom of God when our time on Earth ends. “[…] Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘O Thou all-knowing Ahura Mazda: Should I urge upon the godly man, should I urge upon the godly woman, should I urge upon the wicked Daêva-worshipper who lives in sin, that they have once to leave behind them the earth made by Ahura, that they have to leave the water that runs, the corn that grows, and all the rest of their wealth?’ Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Thou should, O holy Zarathustra.’ O Maker of the material world, Thou Holy One! Where are the rewards given? Where does the rewarding take place? Where is the rewarding fulfilled? Whereto do men come to take the reward that, in their life in the material world, they have won for their souls? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘When the man is dead, when his time is over, then the hellish, evil-doing Daêvas assail him; and when the third night is gone, when the dawn appears and brightens up, and makes Mithra, the God with beautiful weapons, reach the all-happy mountains, and the sun is rising: Then the fiend, named Vîzaresha, carries off in bonds the souls of the wicked Daêva-worshippers who live in sin. The soul enters the way made by Time, and open both to the wicked and to the righteous. At the head of the Kinvad bridge, the holy bridge made by Mazda, they ask for their spirits and souls the reward for the worldly goods which they gave away here below. Then comes the well-shapen, strong and tall formed maid, with the dogs at her sides, one who can distinguish, who is graceful, who does what she wants, and is of high understanding. She makes the soul of the righteous one go up above the Hara-berezati; above the Kinvad bridge she places it in the presence of the heavenly gods themselves. […]’Zarathustra took those words from Ahura Mazda: ‘I invoke the holy world, made by Ahura Mazda. I invoke the earth made by Ahura, the water made by Mazda, the holy trees. I invoke the sea Vouru-kasha, I invoke the shining sky. I invoke the eternal and sovereign luminous space. I invoke the bright, all glorious, blissful abode of the holy ones. I invoke the Garô-nmânem, the abode of Ahura Mazda, the abode invoke of the Amesha-Spentas, the abode of all the other holy beings.”’”
